Loss of wobble uridine modification in tRNA anticodons interferes with TOR pathway signaling

Microbial Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 416-424

  Scheidt, Viktor ^a   Jüdes, André ^a   Bär, Christian ^a,b   Klassen, Roland ^a   Schaffrath, Raffael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elongator complex; Gln3; NCR; Rapamycin; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sit4; TOR signaling; TRNA anticodon modification; TRNase zymocin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924121221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23112638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15698/mic2014.12.179     Document Type: Article

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